John Doerr, legendary VC, on advising Obama, our broken healthcare & how entrepreneurs can fix it
About this episode
The healthcare industry is the largest and most broken part of the American economy with $3 trillion spent annually and $1 trillion of that wasted each year. Today’s guest, the legendary John Doerr Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, discusses why this is the case and the biggest challenges facing the healthcare system today. John also advises how entrepreneurs can think about trying to solve those challenges (hint: start with the data). John Doerr has been a Partner at Kleiner Perkins since 1980, and has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the…